SeamusMcFly
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2008
- Messages
- 2,050
- Reaction score
- 110
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...AL/story.html?p1=Article_Trending_Most_Viewed
“We have a chance to repair the scars left by the automobile era of the 1950s and ’60s,” said David Hacin, a principal at Hacin + Associates, an architecture firm. “We can move past that time period to build something denser, pedestrian friendly, and more attractive to people as a place to live and work.”
This quote illustrates why Hacin is one of the hippest Boston firms, and is getting involved in so many good projects.
I put this here because it seems to belong here instead of in the development thread, as this is really about masterplanning, but with private developers doing each individual project.
Here's hoping a good portion actually gets done.
“They brought cars into the city and rescued Boston from becoming an economic backwater,” said Mark Pasnik, a principal at the architecture and design firm Over, Under. “A lot of them are intelligently produced works of architecture, but they are wrong for today’s urbanism.”
This quote on the other hand might be putting a bit too much of a rosy hue on the garages importance to the cities survival. Some truth, but he's just pandering to the old school architects and developers.
“We have a chance to repair the scars left by the automobile era of the 1950s and ’60s,” said David Hacin, a principal at Hacin + Associates, an architecture firm. “We can move past that time period to build something denser, pedestrian friendly, and more attractive to people as a place to live and work.”
This quote illustrates why Hacin is one of the hippest Boston firms, and is getting involved in so many good projects.
I put this here because it seems to belong here instead of in the development thread, as this is really about masterplanning, but with private developers doing each individual project.
Here's hoping a good portion actually gets done.
“They brought cars into the city and rescued Boston from becoming an economic backwater,” said Mark Pasnik, a principal at the architecture and design firm Over, Under. “A lot of them are intelligently produced works of architecture, but they are wrong for today’s urbanism.”
This quote on the other hand might be putting a bit too much of a rosy hue on the garages importance to the cities survival. Some truth, but he's just pandering to the old school architects and developers.
